The U.S. Space Force is looking into establishing a combatant unit in Japan, Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said at a press conference in Tokyo Monday. A Space Force presence in Japan represents the next step in expanding the service’s Indo-Pacific footprint, said Saltzman at the start of his visit. In November 2022, […]
The Department of Defense has announced plans to establish Bravo Artificial Intelligence Battle Labs at the U.S. European Command and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command for hackathons to develop and strengthen the military’s AI capabilities. Joe Larson, the DOD’s deputy chief digital and AI officer for algorithmic warfare and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, said […]
Autonomous uncrewed systems developer Darkhive announced on Thursday that it has received four contracts worth nearly $5 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX technology directorate. The small unmanned aircraft systems technology deals consist of two Small Business Innovation Research Phase II, one Direct-to-Phase II and one Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II contracts, […]
The Space Systems Command has announced a $10 million contract award to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to check the software and cybersecurity of SSC’s Evolved Strategic SATCOM’s ground segment prototypes. SSC separately awarded in May a $30 million contract each to two combined vendor groups – Team Raytheon and Team Lockheed – […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the start of its Secure Our World nationwide cybersecurity public awareness campaign, which will provide tools and pointers on the safe use of online resources. A public service announcement on U.S. broadcast networks ushered in the campaign, which according to the agency’s director, Jen Easterly, encourages everyone […]
The U.S. Air Force announced on Sunday that its Project Management Resource Tools have been migrated to Air Force Cloud One, which provides secure platforms for development activities including proof-of-concept, integration, testing and sustainment. The migration, which was completed on July 24, is a two-year project with Science Applications International Corp. as the lead […]
Army National Guard soldiers from two ARNG cyber protection battalions participated in a transfer of authority ceremony on Friday under Task Force Echo, a citizen soldiers’ annual mobilization to support the U.S. Cyber Command and the Cyber National Mission Force. The event at the Capt. John E. Smathers U.S. Army Reserve Center marked the completion […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has transferred to the U.S. Space Force a geostationary weather satellite to extend to 2030 the U.S. military’s Electro-optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary mission’s Indian Ocean weather monitoring. The satellite, rebranded as EWS-G2, is the second spacecraft under a NOAA-Space Force partnership agreement initiated in September 2020 to provide mission-critical […]
True Anomaly has secured from the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command a $17.4 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research supply contract for space domain awareness applications leveraging analytics and scalable artificial intelligence. Under the contract, the Denver, Colorado-based space company will provide its integrated software operating system Mosaic to support a human-machine team-up […]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced that it is undertaking a project called TEC4 with Microsoft and Micron to expand computational chemistry’s availability to applied researchers and industrial users. According to PNNL, the project is part of the Department of Energy’s initiative to hasten technology transfer from basic research to product innovation and capability building to […]
